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Open school for aspiring journalists launched

BHUBANESWAR: Providing an opportunity for aspiring journalists and social workers of Orissa to specialize in issues related to the State, Samadrusti Open School was launched here on Saturday. The school will offer diploma courses in mass media, cultural studies and rural development.

There is an urgent need for professionally trained journalists with adequate knowledge on Orissa to work in the fast-expanding media organizations in the State. But, with courses in media studies getting expensive for the common people, most of the aspiring journalists fail to avail themselves of the courses. The diploma course of one-and-a-half-year duration being offered by the school at a fee of Rs.2000 would bridge that gap, hoped Mr.Sudhir Patnaik, social activist and founder-editor of the Samadrusti magazine who has been the man behind the mission.

“We have been able to launch these studies with the support of some established journalists of the country who oppose commercialization of education.

The course has been designed in a flexible format to suit the need of the students. It would be conducted through correspondence-um-ontact courses,” Mr.Patnaik explained. The students would be trained in Orissa-pecific studies with due emphasis on its socio, economic and cultural aspects to work with greater efficiency in print, electronic and broadcasting organizations, he added. The students would also be trained in filmmaking, it was learnt.

The diploma course in rural development spanning over one year apart from six months’ practical programme would cost Rs.1000 each. It would attempt to train the unemployed youth in undertaking programmes for rebuilding the rural economy through innovative initiatives, Mr.Patnaik said.

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